Campaign For Liberty: David Ewing

David Ewing
Regional Coordinator
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Last login: 08/15/11
RSS feed

I've grown up in Sonoma County, California all my life. As a child I was heavily involved in sports and my local Boy Scout Troop 32 where I became an Eagle Scout. After graduating high school I joined the Navy.  After leaving the Navy I moved back home to Sonoma County where I live now. I have been registered Republican since the age of 18, but I have always had that Libertarian streak when in came to big government Republican Empire America tactics.

Because of Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign in 2007 with his pro individual liberty, constitutional noninterventional government, I started to get more interested in national politics.  And in February of 2008, I joined the local grass roots Ron Paul for President. I followed his message of bottom up politics throughout 2008 and got involved with my local Republican Party's Central Committee.  In August of 2008, some friends and I started a Sonoma County affiliate of the Republican Liberty Caucus of California.  The caucus soon became the home for Ron Paul Republicans and Barry Goldwater types, the libertarians and constitutionalists of our Republican Party and we became the most active political group for the local party.  We volunteered for every local GOP event and organized local precinct work for all liberty minded candidates.  In early fall of 2008 I was voted in and became a regular member of the Sonoma County Republican Central Committee.  That winter I ran for Party Treasurer and won the December election.  In February of 2009, I was voted in as a member of the executive board of the Republican Liberty Caucus of California.

As Thomas Jefferson once said, "We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."

Now I am the Sonoma County Republican Party Treasurer sitting on the executive board for the Sonoma County Republican Central Committee, I am an Executive Board Member for the Republican Liberty Caucus of California and the Campaign for Liberty Interim 6th Regional Coordinator volunteering my time and energy in restoring the Republic.

 





David Ewing's weblog


Bookmark and Share
Posted by David Ewing on 03/14/10
Last updated 03/16/10


 

C4LCA members up and down the Golden State came to rainy Sunnyvale to hear and meet gubernatorial candidate Chelene Nightingale and congressional candidate John Dennis and get some grass roots training. Both candidates were awesome they both stayed to the very end meeting and greeting, but what impressed me the most was that both Chelene and John answering any and all questions that was given to them by C4L members and guests.

That night after the C4LCA conference Republican C4L members drove to Santa Clara to support John Dennis and tested the water with open carry at the California GOP Convention in Santa Clara.

John Dennis had a fantastic Saturday rally inside of the main entrance of the Hyatt with supporters chanting loudly "2010 the year Pelosi ENDS!" And that evening John stopped by the Republican Liberty Caucus of California's hospitality suite, spoke and met with many of his supporters. 

C4L members Walter, Dave and I open carried at the convention Friday night and I was able to open carry Friday night and most of Saturday. Walter and Dave opened carried all night, but on their way out of the hotel they were approached by Hyatt hotel security staff and were asked to remove their legal unloaded holstered sidearm because the Hyatt had a no-fire arm policy that they refused to show and besides they were told "some of their guests felt uncomfortable." Since I wasn't asked to leave that Friday I came back the next day and open carried. I was spotted in the late evening and was asked to remove my legal unloaded holstered sidearm.


Never stay at any Hyatt again.

Before you open carry check out your local laws on open carry

Funny, being pro 2nd Amendment is a GOP platform, one would think they would find pro 2nd Amendment venues for their conventions and allow open carry.

 





Categories: Civil Liberties, Law, Republican Party, Grassroots News, Current Events, Social Issues
Tags:

Showing comments 1—1 of 1

Posted 03/16/10

Marshall White108
San Bruno, CA
Awesome Activism! Way to go C4L and let's keep this ship moving!


You must be logged in to post comments.  [Become a member]

Bookmark and Share
Posted by David Ewing on 10/01/09


Californians your 2nd Amendment Rights are in Jeopardy!

!!!IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED!!!

Your help is needed

Right now there are three Anti-Gun Bills on Governor's Desk

Second Amendment advocates engaged in a prolonged battle in the California Legislature, but unfortunately on the final day of session, three anti-gun bills narrowly passed. The bills include: AB 962 (ammunition registration), SB 41(burdensome and unnecessary regulations that duplicate existing requirements under federal law governing the sale of firearms) and SB 585 (prohibitions on the lawful sale of firearms and ammunition at the Cow Palace exhibition center).

Urge the Governor to Veto these Bills

Please contact Gov. Schwarzenegger at:

916-445-2841

916-558-3160 or 916-445-4633  FAX

or via e-mail at http://gov.ca.gov/interact

I urge all gun owners in the state of California to contact the governor's office and respectfully urge him to veto these anti-gun bills.

IT IS CRITICAL THAT EVERYONE CONTACTS THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to do what you know needs to be done.


More information on the bills:

AB 962 - Would require that firearms dealers and other vendors of ammunition keep a registry of all buyers of handgun ammunition. The bill would also ban all mail order and Internet sales of handgun ammunition and reloading components.

SB 41- Would further burden firearms retailers by requiring additional paperwork and documentation on the date of delivery of all firearms to a buyer. This bill equally affects consumers of firearms as the increased dealer costs would be passed along to the purchaser.

The bill also requires dealers to sign and to obtain the signature of the buyer or other transferee of a handgun on the Department of Justice Dealers Record of Sale (DROS) form indicating that the handgun has been delivered and the date upon which the delivery was made. It would further require dealers to date and sign a form stating that the buyer of a rifle or shotgun had taken possession of the gun.

SB 585 - Would prohibit the lawful sale of firearms and ammunition at the Cow Palace exhibition facility near San Francisco, located in Agricultural District 1-A, and would make a violation of that prohibition a crime. Its purpose is to ban gun shows at the Cow Palace and to set a precedent for the banning of all gun shows at other state-owned facilities where many sportsmen buy firearms and ammunition.

*In California all firearms bought and sold at gun shows must be transferred through a federally licensed firearms retailer who is required under federal and state law to run a background check on the prospective buyer.





Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Law, Action Item, Current Events, Revolution, State Legislation
Tags:

Showing comments 1—2 of 2

Posted 10/02/09

C00kieM0nster
Oxnard, CA
<Yawn> We lost those rights a long time ago.

Happily, NV is quite close, and it has gun stores everywhere.

Alas, some laws demand to be disobeyed.
Posted 03/03/10

nurse emily
San Jose, CA
I would never "Yawn" at you. Keep up the good work while others sleep themselves into slavery.

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. -Thomas Jefferson


You must be logged in to post comments.  [Become a member]

Bookmark and Share
Posted by David Ewing on 05/17/09
Last updated 05/18/09


How Sonoma County's Liberty Movement became so successful:

What I share with you today is my story and only my option, it is not part of any official statement or position supported by Campaign for Liberty or the Republican Liberty Caucus.

Before Super Tuesday of last year the Sonoma County Liberty movement was butting heads with our local Republican Party not over issues but over the antics of some Ron Paul supports nationally.  We were supporting Congressman Ron Paul and they were supporting all the traditional candidates like Mitt, Fred, Huckabee, even the ex-mayor of NYC, the interesting thing that I noticed at the time was that not may established Republicans came out publicly supporting McCain.  After Super Tuesday some Ron Paul supporters decide to run for the local Republican Central Committee and started to attend meetings.  Myself and a few other Ron Paul supporters needed find a way to keep Ron Paul's message alive in our local community.  Some members decided to run a booth every week at our local summer farmer's market.  I felt the message at the booth was getting mixed up with national issues that most "average joes" off the street would run away from, because they just didn't know any better. The intent of the organizer of the booth was a forum to educate our community on monetary issues, but to me the booth should have been focused more on our local issues such as county and city corruption creating an avenue to strengthen our local numbers, allowing us to take back our county with honest politics.

We realized if Ron Paul's message was going to get accepted at the county level we needed to create a larger tent and education along wasn't going to do it.  We also need to understand the inner workings of our county, who was running the show, in essence who was running our county.  Our county on the surface was and still is controlled by the left but as we started to dig deeper we began to understand our county politics and the amount of corruption there was run by a small hand full of people.  If you could imagine a real version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" with our very own Boss Hogg.  We didn't like this and needed to find more friends to help us combat the "Alliance."  We need to find the opposition of the corruption within our county and get them into our tent.  We needed to talk with conservative groups through out our county.

We got involved with our local Republican Central Committee. We started attending their meetings every month and got to know the key players on the committee.  We dressed and acted professionally, we did not try to create a ruckus, we just sat in the back and observed like well mannered guests.  At the same time we started to develop relationships trying to find common goals with key players from other organizations within our county that had messages similar to Ron Paul but who necessary didn't vote for Ron Paul.

(Why get other local key players involved? -- If you are planning on getting onto a central committee or would like to stay on your central committee.  I suggest you develop relationships with local central committee members and other groups and organizations and have them assist you when you need them and help them when it's appropriate.  You must bring these community leaders with you to your central committee meetings. You will be sending a strong message to those members of the central committee who might not support you or your friends.  If those central committee doesn't support you, then they don't support their local conservative community, and they will eventually lose their elected seats.  Because you've proved to them that you have the support of the local conservative community and groups they belong to.  These groups will be in your corner when it's time to cast votes if you took the time and energy to set up a large base of support.)

Once we established good working relationships with these organizations, we started volunteer at EVERY local Republican event. We became THE volunteers at every booth, event, function, and even cleaned the local headquarters.  Basically we knew we were on the bottom of the local GOP totem pole, but we didn't care, we knew if we could work harder then any other volunteer, show up first/work hard/last one to leave, our local GOP would soon realized that they needed people like us and we would leave a lasting impression for people within the central committee when it came down to voting for officers onto the central committee's executive board, because no one else in the local GOP was.

We knew once we were in the committee we needed to find a legitimate avenue within the GOP to keep working against the issues we opposed without getting much heat, so we started a Sonoma County affiliate of the Republican Liberty Caucus of California.  Through the banner of the Liberty Caucus, we became the home for Ron Paul Republicans and Barry Goldwater types, the libertarians and constitutionalists of our Republican Party and even some Huckabee supporters.  The Liberty Caucus also started to host monthly shoots at our local gun range.  We would shoot a little and we would talk a little about local issues.  Just like before when we volunteered for everything, the Liberty Caucus became the most active political group for our local party.  We precinct walked every weekend for the local conservative candidates, rain or shine.  We knew most of the candidates won't have a chance in our liberal county and districts but we worked harder then any other group.  Because of our hard work the Liberty Caucus were able to pick up a few more seats as alternates for these ex-officio candidates, which allowed us to strengthen our numbers within the central committee.

In December, I ran and won the Treasurer position and in January two Ron Paul supporters got selected as District Chairs and became members on our executive committee.  Without the support from our local community conservative groups including our Liberty Caucus I don't think I would have won my election for Treasurer, I won by a very small margin.  Now we have members sitting on our central committee's executive committee, by-laws committee, budget committee, and precinct and registration committee. We don't have a majority on any committee, but what we do have is the support and respect of a small majority on our central committee. With their support we have been able to gain many victories each month.

The Liberty movement in Sonoma County has been very successful in one years time, because we have focused our political energy on local politics. Here's our playlist:

1. Attend Meetings

2. Dress for Success

3. Leave wedge issues that will marginlize you at the door

4. Sit in the back and keep your mouth shut

5. Get to know your local party

A. Recognize the leaders in the room

B. Get to know the leaders on a personal level through personal conversations

C. Find local issues that you have in common and develop alliances with committee members (know when to bite your tongue, agree to disagree)

6. Get you and your friends involved by volunteering for local issues like TAXES

A. Work harder then anyone else

B. Earn trust and respect

C. As you are volunteering, learn how to organize future political activities

7. Develop working alliances with other local organizations.  Through local issues for example: TAXES or gun rights or property rights

A. Organize political activities

B. Find local political candidates and issues

C. Become the political activist your party depends on

8. Become voting members of your central committee

9. Organize you and your allies to run for central committee in 2010

10. Use everything you have learn in these steps to get elected onto the central committee in June 2010 

 

In Liberty,

David Ewing

CA 6th District Coordinator

 

 





Categories: , Campaign For Liberty, Education, Grassroots News, Revolution
Tags:

Showing comments 1—2 of 2

Posted 05/18/09

TruthSaga
San Jose, CA
Inspiring story! Congratulations on all your success thus far.
Posted 05/31/09

Rolando
Woodland, CA
We Have to get Mike Thompson on board .... HR 1207 I mysef have tried to push some supporters to call him..... and I have contacted him myself but have yet to see his name on the support list.....


You must be logged in to post comments.  [Become a member]

Bookmark and Share
Posted by David Ewing on 06/10/09
Last updated 06/10/09


http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

 



Tags:

No comments yet.

You must be logged in to post comments.  [Become a member]

Bookmark and Share
Posted by David Ewing on 05/02/09


Friends of Liberty,

Members of Campaign for Liberty in the Sonoma County Republican Central Committee, Alameda County Republican Central Committee, Contra Costa County Republican Central Committee and the Republican Liberty Caucus of California passed resolutions in support of H.R.1207 similar to the C4L resolution. Currently the Campaign for Liberty is circulating petitions throughout the nation.

This video (posted below) with supporters from the Tennessee C4L submitting signed petitions to their representative was pasted on by a friend and C4L member in the Alameda County Republican Central Committee.

If you're a registered Democrat, I urge you to contact your central committees in your county and ask them to pass a similar resolution!

Let Freedom Ring! Click on the links below.

In Liberty,

David Ewing 

Campaign for Liberty Minnesota: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=17052

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdjIlk2ujPc&feature=player_embedded

 





Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Finance, Globalism, Grassroots News, Action Item, Current Events, Economy, Monetary Policy, Congress
Tags:

Showing comments 1—3 of 3

Posted 05/02/09

TruthSaga
San Jose, CA
Refreshing and inspiring!
Posted 05/03/09

walterstanley
Livermore, CA
You can download the Petition here:

http://www.mnc4l.org/hr1207/hr1207_petition.pdf
Posted 05/21/09

psteppe
alamo, CA
this is great. i think we need a whole thread on hr 1207 on the website somewhere.


You must be logged in to post comments.  [Become a member]

Recent Entries

C4LCA members at our Sunnyvale conference and at the CA GOP Convention
Californians your 2nd Amendment Rights are in Jeopardy!
How to jump start the Liberty Movement in your county
American capitalism gone with a whimper - according to Russia's Pravda
HR 1207 News!

David Ewing's Blogroll

AlexanderVA
Andrew Ward
John Tate
Shawn Dow
SteveBierfeldt
Deb Wells
Robert Vaughn
AllanBartlett
Jeff Greenspan
DebbieHopper
Ryan Magnon
Tom Davenport
kirkshelley
mybug67
johndennis
FreedomFrank
RonPaulinator
AdamCabrera
Thomas Woods
likestogofast
Matt Hawes


Entries David Ewing recommends

Ron Paul: Statement Introducing HR 1866, Industrial Hemp Farming Act      by Terry Jack
New Leadership in Los Angeles County Republican Party      by Matthew Heath
Importance Of Local Grassroots Leadership      by Matthew Heath


David Ewing's contacts

Showing contacts 1—10 of 160

View all of David Ewing's contacts


Matthew Heath


Jeff Greenspan


AdamCabrera


sendin


Freedom4all333


septravarius


DebbieHopper


AllanBartlett


walterstanley


Robert Vaughn











Disclaimer: This website has moved. Please visit campaignforliberty.org






Campaign for Liberty is a 501(c)4 lobbying organization which neither supports nor opposes candidates for public office and claims no
responsibility for the actions of individuals or groups of individuals who use the Campaign for Liberty logo or name or who may claim to act as
representatives of the Campaign for Liberty without prior written consent of the Campaign for Liberty. [?]